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Example sentences for: dire

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Call Chatterbox paranoid--you won't be the first!--but could it be that pro-preference university officials want to discredit Prop. 209 by painting its consequences as more dire than they actually are? ...
Dire consequences loom.
Voir dire is short and precise and intelligible; in my opinion, this distinction can be claimed by many other terms of art, including tort, fee simple, easement, mens rea , and prima facie case.
Through every available channel, he repeated the earlier warning to the Taliban of the possible dire consequences-including military strikes-if Bin Ladin remained their guest and conducted additional attacks.
A piece dampens enthusiasm about recent rises in Asia's stock markets: Asian economies are still in dire shape and governments are not doing nearly enough to restore fiscal stability.